Despite a steady increase in the number of self-employed women, the so-called gender gap has hardly diminished. Based …-induced employment breaks - which from a theoretical perspective go along with a loss of human capital - explain women's lower start …

activities. Women are relatively often and foreigners rarely represented in the start-up actvities of the service sector. …

tendency of women to start businesses in the service sector, which is underrepresented in the crafts. Women also tend to be … women to care for children and actively participate in the labor force at the same time. On the other, incomes are generally … lower. Women are more risk averse and tend to be more cautious in their entrepreneurial endeavors. They are more likely to …

and climate variability. These challenges include how to reduce the incidence of malaria (including the significant … challenge of resistant malaria), dengue, and other vector-borne and water-borne diseases that are likely to experience … and malaria transmitted by vectors like mosquitoes. In the context of growing financial pressure on governments due to …

This study analyzes entries into unsubsidized employment among mothers receiving Unemployment Benefit II (UB II) on a … among mothers receiving UB II, and looks into other factors influencing the timing of their employment entries as well …. Mothers who were employed are compared to those without employment before the birth of their child. For the former group, the …

Mothers with young children who receive welfare benefits find it difficult to take up employment and, in particular, to … stop receiving benefits. This research report uses administrative data to analyse when mothers succeed in doing so after … having their first child. Almost half of our sample of non-employed women aged 18 to 44 receiving SGB II benefits who gave …